WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR SEPTEMBER 2023

barbiecat
barbiecat Posts: 17,209 Member
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:) For some people September is the other January--a time to make a clean start on something important. We have a new project at our house that requires time and patience and I am so glad to have all of you to support me during this difficult time. My challenge may be bigger or smaller than yours, but it is significant and having the support of others will help me.

:) Welcome to a place for support and encouragement. The name of the thread is "Women Ages 50+" but all women are welcome.

:) Be sure to bookmark the thread so you can find it again. Also sign your post with a name or nickname and a location, specific or general so we can more easily get to know you.

:) This is a fast moving thread so don't worry if you can't respond to all, just jump into whatever topic interests you and enjoy the camaraderie.

<3 Barbie in NW WA

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is that they trade what they want the MOST for what they want at the MOMENT.
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  • LisaInArkansas
    LisaInArkansas Posts: 2,905 Member
    Thank you Barbie! Glad to be joining everyone once more in September...
  • exermom
    exermom Posts: 6,533 Member
    Worked, made yogurt for the IP, went in the pool then walked to Food Lion and the dollar store. Got a birthday card for Pete and since I was returning a $1.25 item, I also got Halloween cards. Made fudge for Vince and Jess if she wants some tomorrow

    This lady’s brother died and he had a large train collection so Vince is helping her inventory them and today Trainz (in GA Carol) is going to pick them up. Then he’s supposed to go to the fair to help with the train layout.

    They were calling for rain today...it’s sunny out.

    Aiden – welcome! A friend’s son has that name. You’re only the second Aiden I’ve ever known

    Lisa – Egg deserves extra treats. Tell him I said so (sending virtual catnip). Thanks for thinking about me during this hurricane. I’m so far inland that it’s sunny out.

    Heather – what is “funny soup”?

    Carla – welcome! I’m in Catawba County North Carolina

    Rebecca – happy birthday to Lee

    Allie – cute friend.

    Heather – seeing that crane reminds me of when they installed the pool. They had the pool go right over the house! It WAS something to see, our one neighbor brought out her lawn chair to watch. Then when they put in the spa. It was upside down as they brought it over the house. I swear, upside down it looked like a spacecraft!

    Michele NC
  • SophieRosieMom
    SophieRosieMom Posts: 3,664 Member
    edited August 2023
    Thanks Barbie

    This group is a wonderful place for women to feel safe and supported and to share our unique outlook on life and health. I appreciate your efforts in keeping us going every month.

    September already. Fall is in the air!

    Lanette B)
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,282 Member
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  • okiewoman510
    okiewoman510 Posts: 1,317 Member
    Thank you Barbie for starting us off again with a clean slate.

    Okie in the TX Hill Country
  • teklawa1
    teklawa1 Posts: 678 Member
    Barbie, thanks for the new thread.

    Betsy in NW WA
  • Whidislander
    Whidislander Posts: 3,820 Member
    ginnytez wrote: »
    Lisa-your raccoon start was a delightful story. I never thought of keeping a BB gun around for such use but good idea. I won't typically kill but will warn off. Haven't had raccoons here but even though I am in a residential neighborhood there are fields on each side within three block. I have seen the occasional coyote sauntering across the yard in the early morning on his way home.

    Allie-your new friend is cute. If you fly out from the east coast of Fla (Orlando?) you should be ok. If not you can spend more time with cousin.

    Heather-interbeing can work well. With its Buddhist influence it will still convey a spiritual tone but I like the connectedness of everything as a concept.

    Barbara AHMOD-there are also many decent laptops for a good price-if you don't need the bells and whistles especially. Perhaps your old one can hang on for Black Friday!

    Rosemarie-been forever since I knitted but my friends who are quite good have pulled more than one piece apart to start over. No shame!

    Rebecca-optometrists here do all the basic eye tests-cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration. Go to ophthalmologist for treatment. House looks good!

    Lanette-fall is indeed in the air.

    Very busy/productive at work today. Several smaller but important tasks completed, Tomorrow is my work from home day. May take a couple of hours vacation and run over to casino in morning. Do not want to be there over holiday weekend. I will see how I feel in morning.

    Off to get ready for bed. Steroids disrupting sleep a bit-a couple of more days. Will sleep when my body feels like it.

    Take care all,

    Ginny in Ohio

    Thanks on the nice words about my home pics. Lee does say its too bare, but you know me, I like bare.🙃😂
    Yes our insurance company wouldn't have paid the claims, and the eye place told me my referral needed to be changed. So actually getting a hold of my doctor was more troublesome than anything. Finally left them an email. It was maybe 2 weeks until it was put thru again. Annoying.
    Rebecca
    Whidbey
    Wa
  • skuehn48
    skuehn48 Posts: 3,049 Member
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  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,626 Member
    cityjaneLondon wrote: »
    Tracey - Enjoy your weekend with the grandkids. <3
    Edie will be 10 at the end of September. She is a fount of interesting conversations. I love 'deep chat' so it's great. Time just flies.
    I must say I was astonished at how difficult both DH and Edie found it to watch and follow a simple beginner video on how to start crochet. I am such a visual learner, so I just did exactly what the person on the screen was doing, but they couldn't seem to see it, especially DH. Edie did keep coming back for another try, but wanted to work it out for herself.
    It was an interesting lesson for me in learning styles. I find often with DH, I explain something, but he gets a totally different idea of what I am talking about. I must not assume he has 'seen' it the same way I do. I have such a clear idea in my head, that I find it difficult to understand that the other person isn't seeing what I'm seeing. I think some people don't 'see' at all. I often find he is doing something completely different from what I have just explained. ;)
    He is getting very good at painting though. His new designs are terrific, all from scratch. :p<3

    I'm going to miss the kids when they are back at school, especially Edie. We will see Bea on Tuesdays.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx

    I've discovered, over the years, that some people don't "see" or "get" databases, and yet they make so much sense to me!

    I've also discovered that I see, perceive, understand things upside down or backward to what other people do.

    For example, there are a few cities which I've perceived to exist in a certain configuration and when I see them on a map, and in relation to other places, I discover they are exactly upside down to the way I've perceived them. Calgary, which I am quite familiar with, and Strasbourg, France are two examples.

    Another example, I wrote some SQL code recently and a part of it wasn't working so I called over a colleague who is better at SQL than me. I was just missing a couple little things, but there was a part of the code that confused him and took him a few moments to figure out what I had done. He said it did make sense but he would have done it the opposite way. How I had it was backward to him.

    Comments like that are not unusual to me.

    In my previous job, I struggled for about 3 months to "see" how my difficult work colleague was looking at the data, and then it suddenly dawned on me that she was looking at it upside down! Or at least upside down to the way I work ... and actually upside down to the way databases work. Which brings me back to my first point that there are people who don't "see" or "get" databases.

    Nevertheless, I say all that to say, it's not unusual that people see things differently.


    Some of us also do things different upside down or the opposite way.

    I'm ambidextrous or mixed dominant so some things I will do like a right-handed person and some things I will do like a left-handed person.

    For example, when I was learning to cook, and I was doing the task of pouring water out of a pot and holding the lid against it so that the veggies didn't slide out, I really struggled with it and often burned myself with steam or dropped the whole thing. My mother already knew about my mixed dominance, so one day she was watching me struggle, and told me to put it down and switch hands. SO much easier!

    Apparently I hang my clothes up like a left-handed person too. Used to drive my mother crazy because she liked everything in the coat closet facing the same way, and my stuff was always facing the opposite way.

    I tend to play a lot of sports left-handed too.

    So @cityjaneLondon next time they try crocheting, have them try doing it left-handed. You never know. :)


    Machka in Oz
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,626 Member
    Snowflake1968 wrote: »
    I broke my 100% streak. The math lesson I had to plan I only got 14/15.
    😂 it was fun while it lasted.
    I completed the required course within this course today and am now Orton-Gillingham certified. Maybe I can do some tutoring with it this winter.
    Tomorrow is the last day of this session and I think we are off Monday. I sure hope so.

    You're doing really well! :)

    Snowflake1968 wrote: »
    I noticed the last few days that we were away I was not having pain in my back or hips. This includes the day we climbed to the coal mine. Yesterday I sat a lot because of the drive home, today I sat to get this course finished. It was mandatory to have completed by 830am tomorrow. I am in pain again this evening. So I went for a 2km walk. I am going to start working myself up again because I’m sure not going to get steps in just being at home going to school.

    Tracey in Edmonton

    I find I'm standing more at work these days, and my back and hips seem to like it.

    (Sit/stand desk).



    M in Oz

  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,626 Member
    Saturday 1 September

    Sleep
    Garden
    Walk
    Colouring
    A few errands
    Midsommer Murders


    Daffodils and other bulb flowers are blooming
    Leaves are coming out on the trees



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    Machka in Oz
  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 19,055 Member
    edited September 2023
    Barbie: Thank you for the new thread.

    I’m copying this over from August
    Heather: We often get useful information from our grandchildren. Perhaps you could offer to help Edie create an art space in her room. It could double as a homework station. I’m not surprised about Edie and Johnny not ‘getting’ the crochet from the video. I learnt about learning styles when I did my teaching degree. Teachers need to present new material to students in a number of different ways. Love that new piece of Johnny’s. Good idea form Tracey
    Rebecca: Your joy shines out from the page. Long may it continue.
    I have my first group meeting of the new season after lunch today. Parchment Craft. Monday I have Creative Writing and Monday Painters. I have been doing my admin this week to get ready.

    Time for lunch.

    ☘️ Terri

  • barbiecat
    barbiecat Posts: 17,209 Member
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  • cityjaneLondon
    cityjaneLondon Posts: 12,721 Member
    Lisa - It's been cold here the last couple of days. I'm in a thermal long-sleeved vest and light sweater! Determined not to put on the heating yet! Fortunately, it's due to warm up over the weekend when DH has cricket. :D
    I spent my book writing time this morning trying to explain what I mean by 'interbeing'. By writing about it, I'm beginning to understand it! I'm delving back into my philosophy degree, which is fun. And yes, union and community with others in the world is part of it. <3 I'm having such fun.

    Love Heather UK xxxxxxxx
  • pipcd34
    pipcd34 Posts: 17,282 Member
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